My air conditioner is leaking like a sieve, so like every penny-pinching American, I repaired it myself.
I stuck a 30-gallon tub inside the air handler to catch the water.
Now, one must remember to check the 30-gallon tub on occasion and not wait one solid month to check the standing water. As noted by the Titanic, collected water tends to weigh much more than the container.
Unable to budge the plastic vessel, I did what any good sailor would do. Started bailing. Cup by coffee cup, I bailed, bucketed and tossed the collected water out into my parched garden. After several trips, I was able to slide the container out into the hallway.
Whew.
Water still filled the container half-way. I could a) throw my back out in attempt to haul the excess out the front door or b) reach for my trusty coffee cup.
Choosing health over haste, I resumed the bailing process.
I noticed something at the bottom of the tub.
A penny.
Right there in plain sight, for anyone who bothered to peer past all the crystal-clear water.
I pulled the cent free and in examination, found nothing particularly interesting about it. Just a plain old penny, mine for the taking.
Sort of like Jaycee Dugard.
For 18 years, she remained held fast, forced to endured the very worst possible bottom of the barrel scenario society has to offer.
The weight of this country's child protection laws did nothing to protect or act as a fail-safe on her behalf.
Lawmakers, it's time to check the water.
6 comments:
Isn't it interesting how the media is now ignoring the definitive fact that sex offender registries don't work?
Don't blog too loud, Sunny; There's people sleeping over there.
Yep. Brian Williams actually reported on the story last night with a graph that reflected the fact that over 100 offenders lived in the unincorporated area where Jaycee was found.
He never mentioned residency restrictions, just the fact that police response is limited in such areas....jsut trying anything and everything in an attempt to explain how every failsafe failed!
In other words, it's the fault of those 100 others that Jaycee wasn't found sooner, not the cops who obviously were or are incompetent.
Hey and let's now leave out child services....I'd like to know if any calls were made by neighbors to report concerns.
From my friend, "e"...
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"Here we have a guy who is essentially under every kind of supervision we allow. Law enforcement had every tool available to them, and [the tools] failed," said Robert Coombs, spokesman for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault."
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Although CALCASA has no official tally, it estimates California spends roughly $500 million a year on GPS devices for 6,600 of the state's sex offenders. Garrido was fitted with a device after California voters passed Jessica's Law in November 2006.
Each dollar spent on GPS equipment "is one dollar you're not spending on real, traditional parole techniques, like talking to collateral contacts and neighbors," he said.
CA- Experts: Monitoring tools failed to unearth Garrido's secret
http://sexoffenderresearch.blogspot.com/2009/09/ca-experts-monitoring-tools-failed-to.html
tools are only as good as the people that use them,give a bad carpenter a saw and hammer and you still get a shitty house built,they can throw all the money they want at this proble but without the personal smart enough to know how to use the stuff they won't get anywhere ,I read that the brit.police have to be collage educated not just go threw a police course that focuses on physacal ability more than knowledge.
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